National Adoption Month: How We Were Lead to Adopt our Boy

Welcome back to Sunday at The Naptime Bloggers!  We're really excited to introduce you to our next Guest Blogger, Jamie!  Yesterday, Saturday, was National Adoption Day, which is why we chose our next blogger!


Jamie is a licensed mental health therapist working as a full time mom right now. She has been married to her wonderful husband for 8 1/2 years. Her favorite hobby is running with her border collie (and now pushing a stroller).
They are featured today on their adoption agency website at HERE where there is a video from their first visit which can also be found HERE and a link to their personal blog is HERE!



I hope you watch the video from their first video, and definitely check out their blog!
Without further plugs and ado, here is their story...

Last year my husband and I were talking about our New Year's goals on New Year's Day, I said I had a desire to become a mom this year. We discussed the possibility of doing foster-adopt through DSHS as we wait for our referral from Ethiopia which we had started on.

On January 3rd, we got an e-mail from the coordinator from the Ethiopia program checking in. We called her back right away. During this conversation, we mentioned that we are thinking of adopting another child before we adopt from Ethiopia since it was going to be a 3 year process. We also spoke of how we were considering other countries as well. She was excited about this idea and mentioned some children that might be available form China and Taiwan and said we were the ideal couple that Taiwan looks for since we are young without children.

The next day, we received an e-mail with a referral for our son!

At first, I felt like I didn't want to read about him or look at the pictures because I didn't want to get too emotionally attached and excited too soon. I was sort of confused and shocked because I have been preparing for a African daughter and there was a picture of an Asian boy.

We talked to our small group about this referral and got some good feedback about becoming parents and trusting God and taking things one step at a time and to put faith in God.

After reflecting and crying for a couple days, we came to the conclusion that he was put before us for a reason. I sort of felt some relief that God chose him because of feeling so much pressure in the decisions that come with adoption such as which gender, country, age, family history and disabilities. This was all decided by God for us.

The hardest part was waiting and trusting God in this process. The first time the birth mother got our information, she didn't approve us. Which was a huge shock! So, my husband (who I learned will do anything for his son) and I flew to Taiwan hoping to meet her. Unfortunately we didn't get to meet her, but we did get two days with our son. We knew he belonged with us from the day we met him.

We had to wait in anticipation for two weeks for the birth mother's social worker to meet with the birth mother to show her pictures from our visit, letters from the doctor and our full homestudy. We got the news we were hoping for! The birthmother approved us!

5 months later after both governments got the paperwork they needed, we got to finally return to Taiwan to bring our son home!

The theme of trust has come into my life after going through this. Waiting was probably the most stressful time in my life. While in Taiwan both times, this is the verse that I focused on and now have it hanging in our son's room, "Trust The Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding, but in all of your ways follow him and He will make your path straight." Proverbs 3:5-6

Even though being a mom is not easy and is way more exhausting than I thought, I am so thankful for the son God gave us to care for and thank him every day for bringing us together.

I really hope you enjoyed this weeks blogs.  If you have an idea for a guest blog, please don't hesitate to contact us! Here's a link to our Facebook!  Also, I especially hope that you enjoyed our spotlight on National Adoption month!  Do you know of anything else that's coming up that you'd like to see us do a spotlight on?  Go ahead and comment, e-mail, or Facebook us!  We would love to hear your thoughts and opinions!

From all of us here at The Naptime Bloggers,

Have a wonderful Sunday!  See you tomorrow!